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Sanjay Gopalan | 11 Dec 16:39
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[OT][Contest] InCTF 2012: A national level capture the flag style ethical hacking contest

Hello everyone,

My name is Sanjay Gopalan and I am a student of Amrita University, Amritapuri, Kerala. The university, in association with Amrita TIFAC Core in Cyber security, is conducting a national level capture the flag style ethical hacking contest, InCTF, solely aimed at students. The contest is similar to several international CTF style contests such as UCSB's iCTF, RuCTFe etc but participation is limited to students enrolled in an Indian University only and is being held from November 2011 to January 2012.

The goal of the contest is to impart to students knowledge of secure coding practices and the implications of not following them. The contest features 3 rounds-first round is a learning round, second puts the learning to test and the final round is the CTF round where teams will be given a vulnerable Linux machine to defend.

The pre-requisite of the contest is knowledge of a programming language. Working knowledge of Linux is highly desirable but not required; learn the required skills while participating in the contest. The first round is a learning round which imparts the skills that will be required in the later stages of the contest.

A team can consist of maximum 5 members, all of whom must be from the same college. There is no registration fee to participate in the contest. Prizes for the top 5 places: upto Rs. 25000, upto Rs. 20000, upto Rs. 15000, upto Rs. 10000 and upto Rs. 5000 respectively.

Registrations to the contest are open till December 31st, 2011. Keep in touch via Website  | Email | Facebook  | Twitter 

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siddharth sharma | 12 Dec 08:56
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Re: [OT][Contest] InCTF 2012: A national level capture the flag style ethical hacking contest


Its very nice to see events happening on cyber security, but i dont have a team i am alone, can i participate ?
2011/12/11 Sanjay Gopalan <gopalan.sanjay-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Hello everyone,

My name is Sanjay Gopalan and I am a student of Amrita University, Amritapuri, Kerala. The university, in association with Amrita TIFAC Core in Cyber security, is conducting a national level capture the flag style ethical hacking contest, InCTF, solely aimed at students. The contest is similar to several international CTF style contests such as UCSB's iCTF, RuCTFe etc but participation is limited to students enrolled in an Indian University only and is being held from November 2011 to January 2012.

The goal of the contest is to impart to students knowledge of secure coding practices and the implications of not following them. The contest features 3 rounds-first round is a learning round, second puts the learning to test and the final round is the CTF round where teams will be given a vulnerable Linux machine to defend.

The pre-requisite of the contest is knowledge of a programming language. Working knowledge of Linux is highly desirable but not required; learn the required skills while participating in the contest. The first round is a learning round which imparts the skills that will be required in the later stages of the contest.

A team can consist of maximum 5 members, all of whom must be from the same college. There is no registration fee to participate in the contest. Prizes for the top 5 places: upto Rs. 25000, upto Rs. 20000, upto Rs. 15000, upto Rs. 10000 and upto Rs. 5000 respectively.

Registrations to the contest are open till December 31st, 2011. Keep in touch via Website  | Email | Facebook  | Twitter 


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Amandeep Singh | 28 Dec 12:13
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Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

Hi,
I am Aman (irc : dedman) , a student of computer science from Delhi.

I love KDE Software and have been using it for over a year. I
especially love using Amarok, Kate, Kopete, KMail and the Plasma
Desktop as a whole.

I wish to contribute to KDE but I have no prior experience with
contributing to OpenSource.
However i have been programming in C/C++ for some time.

I understand that for contributing to KDE, I should learn Qt. I have
started on basic Qt tutorials and I am planning on buying the book
"C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4" by Blanchette and Summerfield.

Will it be a good starting point to Qt, and KDE in general ?

Thanks.

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Nikhil Marathe | 28 Dec 14:29
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Re: Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Amandeep Singh
<aman.dedman@...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am Aman (irc : dedman) , a student of computer science from Delhi.
>
Hi Aman, nice to meet you :)

> I love KDE Software and have been using it for over a year. I
> especially love using Amarok, Kate, Kopete, KMail and the Plasma
> Desktop as a whole.

Fantastic, that is the only criteria required to contribute to KDE,
knowledge is secondary.

>
> I understand that for contributing to KDE, I should learn Qt. I have
> started on basic Qt tutorials and I am planning on buying the book
> "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4" by Blanchette and Summerfield.

Yes Qt is essential to understand KDE. The book btw is excellent, I
learnt a lot of stuff from its Qt 3 version around 6 years ago.
I would recommend not reading the book from front to back but digging
into the first few chapters which discuss the fundamentals and then
just leafing through the chapters discussing various APIs so that you
have an idea of where to hunt around when you are looking for certain
features. After that the Qt documentation should be more than enough.
Start with a few small projects to get familiar with Qt.

The 'problem' with contributing to core KDE is that it can be a major
pain setting up the build environment. (I believe project neon has
simplified this a lot, shadeslayer should be able to help with that).
On the other hand, contributing to small KDE applications is very easy
since you don't need a full trunk checkout.
I would suggest you also get familiar with a version control system
like Git (used by KDE) since if you start using it for your small
projects it becomes easier to use with KDE.

Hope that clears your way,
Nikhil
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siddharth sharma | 28 Dec 15:01
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Re: Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

Hi Aman,


Yes that is a good book, Qt is essential to understand code written for kde applications, in addition i would also recommend reading code side by side  of the application you like that would force you to explore more which line of code does what hence more learning.

       kde-apps.org

and if you have some other queries irc: kde-in 
every one would help you there.


Siddharth Sharma

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Amandeep Singh <aman.dedman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
Hi,
I am Aman (irc : dedman) , a student of computer science from Delhi.

I love KDE Software and have been using it for over a year. I
especially love using Amarok, Kate, Kopete, KMail and the Plasma
Desktop as a whole.

I wish to contribute to KDE but I have no prior experience with
contributing to OpenSource.
However i have been programming in C/C++ for some time.

I understand that for contributing to KDE, I should learn Qt. I have
started on basic Qt tutorials and I am planning on buying the book
"C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4" by Blanchette and Summerfield.

Will it be a good starting point to Qt, and KDE in general ?

Thanks.

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Akarsh Simha | 28 Dec 19:04
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Re: Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

Hi Aman

I think if your C/C++ knowledge is strong enough, you should be able
to dive in without much Qt experience, and just pick up Qt along the
way. The Qt documentation and tutorials are wonderful. But that's my
way of doing things -- diving in and trying to figure out as you go
along. I just find that more interesting and get bored otherwise. Now,
that might or might not work for you.

The hardest part, really, is getting things to build in a neatly
set-up build environment. See
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build for help. Also, yes, IRC
is a great place to ask for help -- particularly, #kde-devel and
#kde-git.

Like Nikhil points out, working on Core KDE is hard. It's also hard
because library development is a bit more complicated than application
development.

Regards
Akarsh
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Rohan Garg | 28 Dec 19:12
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Re: Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

I'll just leave this here as well : http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

On Dec 28, 2011 11:35 PM, "Akarsh Simha" <akarshsimha-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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Rohan Garg | 28 Dec 19:31
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Re: Hello KDE India : Introducing Myself

Oh and since Nikhil mentioned Project Neon, everything is properly documented on Techbase : http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Using_Project_Neon_to_contribute_to_KDE

Best
Rohan Garg

On Dec 28, 2011 11:42 PM, "Rohan Garg" <rohan16garg-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

I'll just leave this here as well : http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/

On Dec 28, 2011 11:35 PM, "Akarsh Simha" <akarshsimha-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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Tirtha Chatterjee | 30 Dec 22:38
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KDE 4.8 Release Party

Hello all,

We are organizing a release party for KDE 4.8 from February 3-5 2012
at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal. This party will coincide with Mukti, the
FOSS festival of NIT Durgapur. We will have a hands-on workshop on KDE
development by Smit (:-D) and a talk on contributing to KDE in
general. We also have an overnight hackfest scheduled. Me, Samikshan,
Smit are attending.

All KDE lovers and enthusiasts from India are invited to come and make
this party a grand success.

Cheers!

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